Stelios P. Mertikas

Stelios P. Mertikas is a Full Professor and Laboratory Director at the Department of Mineral Resources Engineering, Crete Technical University, Greece. His interests include geodesy, satellite geodesy, global satellite navigation systems, geodetic quality control, accuracy measures, statistical process control, sea level changes, geodynamic deformation, calibration of satellite altimeters, remote sensing, image fusion. He received the Diploma in surveying engineering, in June 1979 after a 5-year University program from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. He received M.S. degree in engineering, surveying engineering, in March 1983, from the Department of Surveying Engineering of the University of New Brunswick, Canada, under the supervision of Dr. D.E. Wells. His thesis was “Differential global positioning system (GPS) navigation: a geometrical analysis.” He also received the Ph.D. degree in surveying engineering, December 1988, from the Department of Surveying Engineering of the University of New Brunswick, Canada, supervised by a committee consisting of Professors D.E. Wells, R.B. Langley, W. Faig, and Dr. A. Kluesberg, with the thesis “A statistical investigation into reliable and efficient accuracy measures in positioning.” He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Canada, in 1993, at the Department of Surveying Engineering, University of Calgary, Canada, supervised by Professor Klaus-Peter Schwarz, he also worked on the development of models for GPS quality control and on precise airborne positioning and attitude control. In 2006, he was the Australia Honorary Visiting Fellow, School of Geomatic Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He worked on research projects to develop generic algorithms for quality control of GPS measurements. In 2000, he was Japan STA Visiting Fellow, at the National Research Institute for Geosciences and Disaster Prevention, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, where he worked on research projects for the automatic and online detection of small and persistent shifts in global positioning system station coordinates by statistical process control.

Biography Updated on 12 June 2007